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Piece	Place	Artist	Medium	Stuff
Snake Goddess	Ancient Greece: Menoan	Unknown	Faience	Hierarchy of Scale; Exposed breasts - power victory pose rosettes sideways dress - otherworldly We don't know much about this work
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) or Canon	Classical Greece: Classical	Polykleitos	Marble copy after bronze original	Called Canon because it's the standard of beauty for sculptures Used golden ratio Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans Contraposto - counter posture Well preserved because of Pompeii
Treasury Of Atreus	Ancient Greece: Helladic	Unknown	Limestone	Largest dome for over 1000 years Largest monolithic lintel Ashlar masonry and cyclopic masonry Thought to be Atreus, he abdicated (possibly a tomb) post and lintel and corbelled arch
Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace)	Classical Greece: Hellenistic	Unknown	Marble	Rhodes probably had a successful naval victory Where Nike got it's logo Wet drapery, would have been in fountain lot of contrasting texture Dynamic
Portrait of Augustus as General	Rome: Empire	Unknown	Marble Copy, Bronze Original	Three powers (ishtar gate): - Curass - Military - Toga - Wealth and political power - Eros - Supernatural power Harkening pose: asking for cooperation, contraposto Idealized proportions
The Pantheon	Roman: Empire	Patron: Hadrean		First pantheon built out of wood, burned down Rebuilt out of concrete Originally built on a hill, now sunk by detrius of time Monolithic columns from egypt in portico(front porch) Had rosettes in ceiling squares Biggest dome in the world

Term	Definition
Faience	Metal Glaze, Colder
Verism	Exaggerated age, wrinkles. Counterpart to hellenism but with emphasis on age instead of muscles
Chryselephantine	Ivory veneer with gold
Archaizing	Make something look older in content and style - Fonseca Bust
Harkening Pose	Asking for cooperatino
Patron	Person that paid for it
Incrustacean	Cut rock in half and flip to show vein